To Our Readers: A Message from Ravi Thadhani
Ravi Thadhani, executive vice president for health affairs, executive director of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, and vice chair of the Emory Healthcare Board.
We are investing in our employees, with thousands receiving substantial raises. Our turnover rates have plummeted almost 50 percent from where they were two years ago.
We’re making investments in patient care across the board and are assisting patients in getting appointments sooner. We have improved access to the point that we see almost 1,000 additional patients a day.
Emory researchers pierced the $1 billion mark in sponsored research for the second year in a row. These dollars employ people as well, bringing almost 11,000 jobs into the system.
We marry the results of this multi-disciplinary research with clinical care, constantly looking for ways to prevent disease and improve health, often through innovative technologies. This magazine’s pages are full of the impact of our research—from autism advances to improving food allergies, to evaluating combination over-the-counter tests for COVID-19 and the flu).
We are emphasizing outreach that makes us visible in our communities, such as our “One Trained at Every Game” program that holds free CPR and automated external defibrillator (AED) training next to Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium on game days.
And we recently celebrated a ribbon cutting for the renovated Emory Autism Center playground, which serves 60 children ages 1 to 5 with and without autism (p. 13), a place where fun lays the foundation for empathy and understanding.
I want to thank each of you for your support, whether you work at Emory University or Emory Healthcare, are a student or trainee, call us your health care home, run the Winship 5K, donate to a specific interest, or look to our experts for accurate health information.
This next year will allow us to continue to build upon our successes, and I look forward to tracking our progress and sharing it with you.
Kind regards,
Ravi Thadhani
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